TERMS OF SERVICE

Welcome to the Gusteau’s website (“the Site,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). Gusteau’s provides this site as a service to its customers. Please read the following terms of service (“Terms”) as they govern your use of our site. By using this Site, you agree to follow and be bound by the following rule below. If you do not agree to these Terms, please do not use this Site in any way.

Additionally, Gusteau’s reserves the right to modify these Terms at any time without prior notification. Site users must agree upon and abide by these changes accordingly. Please review this page periodically for changes. Any use of our Site at any time constitutes full acceptance of our service Terms.

•   Description of Service

Gusteau’s is a retailer of high quality gourmet and lifestyle products and a service provider of catering and cooking classes. 

•   Usage Restrictions

All of the content that appears on the Gusteau’s web site, including all visuals, text, audio and video clips are subject to copyright protections and /or other intellectual property rights or licenses held by Gusteau’s. The entire content of the Gusteau’s website is copyrighted as a collective work under Hong Kong copyright laws. Gusteau’s grants you a limited license to access and make personal use of the content on this website. Content of the Gusteau’s website is intended solely for the personal, non-commercial use by the users of our Site.

•   Notice

Gusteau’s may contact you or provide you with service-related and/ or promotional notices by means of postal mail, electronic mail, general site notifications and more using the contact information you have provided to us.

•   Pricing Policy

At Gusteau’s, we are committed to providing our customers with great quality products at reasonable prices. Our products are sold at both in our shop and online at limited quantities and availabilities. We have done our best to display our items as accurately as possible on the Site. Please be aware, variations in color, size, shape and look may occur.

•   Payment Methods

We accept Visa, MasterCard, FPS, PayME and Paypal.

•   About Payment Security

PayDollar is a leading, secure and reliable international payment service provider to banks and online merchants since 2000. Customers’ payment details are securely transmitted to the acquiring bank, card and payment companies for real-time transaction authorisation using 256-bit Extended Validation Certificates (EV) SSL transaction encryption. PayDollar supports CVV/CVC check as well as 3-D secure authentication of Visa and MasterCard namely: Verified By VISA, MasterCard SecureCode for added security protection for both customers and merchant.

•   Site Use

You cannot access or use the Gusteau’s website for any illegal or unauthorized purpose. Harassment in any manner or form of the Site, including via e-mail and chat or by obscene or abusive language, is strictly forbidden. Although Gusteau’s cannot monitor the conduct of its users, it is a strict violation of these Terms to use any information obtained from our Site in order to harass, abuse or harm another person, or in order to contact, advertise, solicit or sell to any user without his/her prior explicit consent.

Also, you agree that no comments or other user submissions submitted by you to the Gusteau’s website will violate any right of any third party, including copyright, trademark, privacy or other personal rights. You further agree that no comments submitted by you to the Site will be or contain libelous or otherwise unlawful, abusive or obscene material. You are and shall remain solely responsible for the content of any comments you make.

•   User Submissions

Gusteau’s strives to create an interactive relationship with the users of its Site and services. User comments, feedback, suggestions, ideas, and other submissions disclosed, submitted or offered to Gusteau’s on or by this Site shall be and remain Gusteau’s property. Users assign all property rights and interests to Gusteau’s allowing our company unlimited use, commercial or otherwise, of any comments. Furthermore, Gusteau’s shall be under no obligation (1) to maintain any comments in confidence; (2) to pay to users any compensation for any comments; or (3) to respond to any user comments.

•   Correction of Site Errors

The information displayed on the Gusteau’s website may contain typographical errors or inaccuracies. We reserve the right to update any information we see fit at any time without prior notice. Please note that such errors may relate to product information, pricing and availability. In these instances, we shall have the right to terminate any orders involving pricing errors or inaccuracies. We apologize for any inconveniences.

•   Indemnity

By use of this Site, you agree to indemnify and hold Gusteau’s (and its officers, directors, agents, subsidiaries, joint ventures, and employees) harmless from any claim or demand, as well as losses, expenses, damages and costs, resulting from any violation of these terms of service or any activity related to your account (including negligent or wrongful conduct).

•   Third Party Links

To improve our Site, Gusteau’s may use and promote services provided by outside third parties. However, even if the third party is affiliated with Gusteau’s, we do not control these services and make no representations regarding these persons or entities. We are not liable or responsible for the accuracy, completeness, timeliness, reliability or availability of, any such parties. Outside sites linked on our Site, all of which have separate privacy and data collection practices, are only for your convenience and therefore you access them at your own risk.

We are not responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as a result of any dealings with any third party website or merchant or operator of such a third party website.

•   Disclaimer of Warranty

All contents, products and services on the site, or obtained from a website to which the site is linked (a “linked site”) are provided to you “as is” without any guarantees or warranty. In connection with all contents, products and services on this site, Gusteau’s makes no warranties of any kind, either express or implied including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, security or accuracy. Use of the product by a user is at the user’s risk.

•   Limitation of Liability

Gusteau’s shall not be liable to you for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or exemplary damages that result from the use of, or the inability to use, the materials and services on this site or the performance of its products (even if Gusteau’s has been advised of the possibility of such damages).

•   Privacy Policy

Gusteau’s collects important customer information in an effort to enhance and personalize your shopping experience. This information allows us to communicate with our customers about our products, services and promotions.

The privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy”) described below covers the entire Gusteau’s website (“the Site,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). Phrases such as “you,” “your” and other similar expressions refer to our customers, or the specific users of this Site. By visiting and using the Site, you accept the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

•   Collected Information

When you place an order, submit your account information or participate in Gusteau’s promotions or surveys, our Site collects your personal information such as your name, e-mail address, mailing address and payment information (credit card numbers and banking accounts). Gusteau’s will use your information collected online to process and fulfill your order. Additionally, your e-mail address may be collected at various points within the Site (including when you place an order with us) so that we can send you any necessary e-mail messages related to your order, such as order and shipping confirmations.

In addition, we maintain a record of your purchase history, product interests, and whatever other details that might enable us to improve your shopping experience. Analytics such as Site use and traffic patterns are also considered to help us improve the design of our website, the products we make and exclusive services we offer. At Gusteau’s, we understand and recognize that we must maintain and use customer information responsibly.

Please note: You are not required to submit any information to our Site. However, without providing the requested information, you may be unable to access certain features of our Site, including placing an order or logging into any other Gusteau’s user-related services.

•   Third Parties

Using Facebook as well as other Site connection methods, we may utilize your personal data to improve your individual Gusteau’s experience. We take your privacy seriously and abide by all Facebook terms, policies and agreements. Your data is kept secure and no actions are taken on your behalf without prior permission.

•   Cookies

What Are Cookies

As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the sites functionality.

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

Disabling Cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the site. Therefore, it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

The Cookies We Set

If you create an account with us then we will use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out however in some cases they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when logged out.

We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.

This site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.

This site offers e-commerce or payment facilities and some cookies are essential to ensure that your order is remembered between pages so that we can process it properly.

From time to time we offer user surveys and questionnaires to provide you with interesting insights, helpful tools, or to understand our user base more accurately. These surveys may use cookies to remember who has already taken part in a survey or to provide you with accurate results after you change pages.

When you submit data through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.

In order to provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page that is affected by your preferences.

Third Party Cookies

In some special cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.

This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted third party analytics solutions on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit which helps us to understand how we can improve the site and continue to produce engaging content.

For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.

We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including; Facebook, Twitter, will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.

More Information on cookies

Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren’t sure whether you need or not it’s usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site. However, if you are still looking for more information, you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods.

•   Site Statistics

Web data is collected to monitor user trends on our Site. Analytical data such as hits to our server, traffic patterns and page views shows us where our audience is coming from and how they interact with us online. This type of collected information does not personally identify specific Site users. In addition, like most websites, our Site may utilize “web beacons,” “pixel tags” or other tracking technologies to help us study the actions of our users through non-personally identifiable information. This data may be aggregated with similar data collected from other users to help us improve Gusteau’s products, services and our overall Site experience.

We also contract with a third-party advertising partner to serve ads on our behalf across the internet and sometimes on this site. They will collect and use anonymous information about your visits to and interactions with our website through the use of technologies such as cookies to personalize advertisements for goods and services.

•   Information Sharing with Outside Parties

Gusteau’s may also share your personally identifiable and/or your non-personally identifiable information, including your name, address, email address, and any transactions you conduct on our Site or offline with us with a third-party advertising partner and its service providers in order to deliver you advertising tailored to your interests when you visit certain other websites. 

Gusteau’s will never rent or sell your e-mail address. We do not share credit card information with third parties except for the purpose of processing your order payment and as required by law. If for any reason you choose to access a third party website linked to our Site, you do so at your own risk. We are not held responsible for how these outside parties collect, use, protect or disclose the information you provide them.

•   Modification of Policies

It is at our sole discretion that Gusteau’s may modify this Privacy Policy to better serve our customers. Please check back often to review any new modifications that have been made.

•   Summary

Gusteau’s takes your privacy seriously. When connecting with us, we want our customers to feel confident that their personal information and credit card data is protected. The personal information we collect from our Site helps us better understand the interests of our audience in an ongoing effort to bring you improved service.

• Contact Us
  
  If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy or would like to exercise your rights to request access to or the correction of the data, please contact our Customer Service Representative
  • by telephone: +852 2363 4611;
    • by e-mail: enquiries@127.0.0.1; or
    • by mail: Gusteau’s Lifestyle Limited, 21/F On Hong Commercial Building, 145 Hennessy Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong